Re: VIM Editor
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Indus wrote:
> > > I am new to Linux and I have just tried to install the system onto a 386
> > > DX20 laptop with 8mb of ram. When I try running VIM, I get an error message
> > > saying that it needs the 'libXaw.so.6' library. Where can I get this ?
> >
> > libXaw.so.6 is the Athena widget set for X11R6. Many programs that have an
> > X Windows mode require this, even if they also have a text mode interface.
> >
> > You need to install the "xlib" package. This does *not* mean you have to
> > install X windows -- I wouldn't try running it on a 386DX20 with 8 megs
> > anyway.
> >
> > The xlib package should update your /etc/ld.so.conf to include the line
> > "/usr/X11R6/lib"; if it doesn't, use ae or one of the other small editors to
> > do it.
>
> Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and
> libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging
> system, one with and one without X support?
You're right. On my system (pretty much stock 1.2.7), it only requires
ncurses and libc5, and starts up fine without ever complaining about
libXaw. I hereby delegate this problem to the more clueful...
--
G. Branden Robinson
Purdue University
branden@purdue.edu
http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/
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